[UPDATE] Sheriff’s Department Releases Description of the Vehicles Involved in Home Invasion Near Blocksburg Where One Person Was Shot
This is not the Penske truck involved. Nor does it for sure represent the vehicle involved. It is just one example of the color and branding on one of the vehicles involved. [Image from the Penske website]
“We got called at 4:40 [this morning,]” Lt. Mike Fridley. “There were five to seven armed subjects all wearing black with black masks..They pistol-whipped everybody….Shot one in the hand…They were in three different trucks.”
“The suspects took an undetermined amount of marijuana and a bunch of other items,” he said.
The vehicles were last seen traveling westbound on Alderpoint Road passing Tooby Ranch Road about 5 a.m., according to a witness.
He wants everyone to know that the suspects fled in a small white U-haul truck, a white Ford F250 towing a white enclosed box trailer, and a yellow Penske truck. “If anyone sees these vehicles, call 911,” he asked.
UPDATE: Note a map on Google of the places renting Penske trucks shows the nearest one is in the Redding area:
Earlier Chapter: Law Enforcement Searching for Truck and Trailer With Five Men After Home Invasion This Morning in the Blocksburg Area
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Hmmm,
Sounds like the scum were hoping to literally get truck loads of cash and cannabis.
Is that what you got out of this Article?!
this is obviously a Bigfoot sighting COVER-UP!
Ya because someone’s gunna shoot their people in the hand for a cover up and gun butt them in the head. Where is your common sense? A lot of them, I’m sure, are staged but this one my friend…doesn’t quite fit the description of a staged robbery.
Some people find it fun to victimize the victims.
🕯🌳Why not? A non lethal wound to the hand,a bump on the head. The first two showed up unmasked and talked to dispatchers.
Bingo, you’ve got it Willie !! 🙄
🕯🌳Ok I admit I had it a little wrong but it still falls right in line with the others, and now there getting there lies down a little better. Again a shot to the hand ain’t shit and the dude with the bump on the head was the one that some how cut his zip ties and made it to a neighbors house. Still a hmmmmmm moment.
You have to be open minded and take into consideration that they are at a farm around sharp objects where they easily could have cut loose. And if a GSW isn’t shit then why dont I give u a thousand dollars to shoot yourself anywhere u want. A pistol whip to the head is more than I’d wanna take in a staged robbery that isn’t going to get fully investigated..
Oh look ! Legalizing it didn’t take the crime out of it, instead it’s given the thieves a bunch of treasure maps .Best be hiring some top notch security for your farms,this is going to continue happening. This is going to continue to take up lots of time for the local police departments, there should be a tax on the farms to help cover the extra cost our departments will spend enforcing these crimes.
Convoy!
What extra cost is that exactly?
Oh man!
we need to get you up to speed
there is a tax. several in fact. $1-$2/ square ft. outdoor, from the County, then it’s ( I’ve been told) $11,000 for grows between 5-10,000 sq. ft. from the State ( making it more expensive per square foot to be at 5,001 sq. ft. than at 9,999!), then sales taxes at the retail level…there’s shrinking profit margins to “be hiring some top notch security”.
Also this is a Sherriff gig. Just to let you in on how it works outside of Eureka, This happened in an un incorporated area. The only “Police Depts.” here are within the Arcata, Eureka, Fortuna, and Rio Dell city limits.
The way the new weed laws have gone, the grower is still treated like the criminal. When it was illegal you were innocent until proven guilty. Now it is in the Civil realm, you are guilty, until theoretically one day, you can prove, and pay your way to innocence.
But there’s nothing new here. Anything worth something can get ripped. a few years ago someone stole a semi trailer full of walnuts, probably happens all the time.
I’m aware of those taxes but none of them go directy to law enforcement.
When a business goes in to an area that’s going to effect say parking and traffic constantly they have to pay to put in a parking garage or stop lights ect till the county is happy with your business impact as an example
The farms are impacting the available officers for the public since they are and will continue to be “ robbed”.This takes up many extra man hours and officers.
The farms locations are also putting their neighbors at risk of a wrong address invasion, not hard to take the wrong drive way in the remote areas.
With that being said the farms should have a tax applied that compensates the departments the responding departments, kinda like the parcel tax they have for fire coverage, but in this case applied only to the farms 🤓
maybe they should have ACTUALLY legalized it… as in making it okay to grow. All the old “dairy farmers” are going to stay angry. Notice they don’t go after the black market farms anymore. Sad times. Sorry for your loss and your hand. I don’t condone any theft, be it from legal farms or otherwise, but its clear that 64 was a ripoff too.
I agree armed security on the legal farms would be extremely good. Just cause the revenue is so extreme and there’s so much put into these farms. The farm owners and employees should feel safe at work, not in fear for their lives. These random acts aren’t always a set up. Have some compassion for the human race.
Yeah, nobody in the industry is getting taxed…. GTFO asshat!
I bet once the sheriffs heard it was 4 or 5 guys with ak-47s they weren’t in any hurry to catch up to them. I can’t go through garberville with a blown taillight without getting pulled over but you can have a convoy of rip offs in known vehicles roll through no big deal?
I think that about 10 Sheriffs and CHP should catch up to them with M-16s and perhaps a helicopter or airplane should be in route.
10 Sheriffs, 10 counties. Not likely.
C’mon no green gehto bird in the wood.
Or 2 Jamaican guys with heavy accents escaping in an old truck with a confederate flag painted on the hood?
From the original story: “…black truck with a grey box trailer.”
What happened to that vehicle?
Cynical me says: Maybe that was a too accurate account of their buddies truck.
More generous me says: they got a better description from other witnesses on the road.
And what happened to ‘the black guys’? Now they were dressed in black wearing black ski masks. This ‘crime’ sounds like another big fish story. It’d make some real good ‘reality’ tv, time to call up the Murder Mountain producers.
Do you think you’re funny?
There’s nothing funny about this issue. We need mandatory buy backs for all the dangerous box trucks. Without the box trucks the crime could never happen. #when will enough be enough?
How about, immediately or better still SOONER, with No More Questionably Humorous jokes about doing something about the uncontrolled sales of illegal arms!!!
Dan F: YES!!
Where are these, “uncontrolled sales of illegal arms,” going on?
I want me some.
That happens in the same places illegals vote.
And protected by the NRA by way of greedy Trump.
Ughm almost every gun found by a police officer is illegal so there coming from somewhere…check your facts before acting like it doesnt happen…
You must have accidentally deleted the rest of this sentence “ almost every gun police found is illegally planted on someone they just shot by accident or because they are desperate for more training “
Is , I think , what you meant to say
hey stryrtoby: how many illegal guns voted? if you’re speaking of people, how many illegals voted? (and please cite a credible source and not Fox News, nor that dude from Kansas who sees illegals everywhere they’re not)?
Steve Parr: online & gun shows.
BS. Nobody selling openly online will sell you a firearm. They all go through a FFA licensed dealer. All gun show sales go by the same rules.
Private party sales is the only place there is a “loophole” and it’s already illegal.
Should read “FFL”
You don’t speak the language……………..
any state except california . hell you can do a little research on the internet and come up with milling instructions blue prints and specs for every part of any firearm. one can buy a cheap mill and tooling for around 5 k and make as many parts as you wish. just remember that as soon as you assemble them they are a firearm. however before they are assembled they are merely self made metal parts.
“The ” Liberals are coming to take away our guns,” any day now they might!!! When was the last time you looked in a mirror, & it DIDN’T Vaporize????
“Beto O’Rourke made headlines at the September Democratic debate in Texas when he said, “Hell, yes, we’re going to take your AR-15, your AK-47.””
It’s certainly on the minds of some democrats.
Take it easy Dan: you f-ck with guns it’s like kicking these guys in the ballsac!
The meek will inherit California
I’m with you Dan. Fuck all these gun nuts they are the source of the problem. I am a gun owning life long hunter and you 2nd amendments types make me sick. Ban all assault weapons and other accessories made to kill people- leave guns for responsible hunters like in other countries. One shot is all you need.
One shot can kill someone…dont be dumb. And assualt rifle. Please tell me what that means…necause unless you own a muzzle loader every gun can be a ASSAULT WEAPON.
China has 1.3 bn people…. what if they invade? Rely on Liz Warren to protect you? THATS WHY we have guns here…
//”Fuck all these gun nuts they are the source of the problem.”//
” I wish someone like you would try to take my guns.” Wow. If you werent so sad kid, it would be funny. I hope someday you see attitudes like yours ARE the problem, and NO ONE is coming to “take your f-ing guns”. Grow up.
Eight years of Obama and NOTHING happened to your precious guns. I have a closet full, including 4 autoloaders (a couple of which are ranch rifles in .223, Rugers, Brownings and Rems) and I’m not happy about ANYTHING going on at the Congressional level these days, but thus far nobody has taken anything since Reagan’s advisor Brady pushed his bill through. Oh, and personally I’m more concerned about your facist friends than, say, democratic socialist Bernie, whose State has open carry. What the whackos should be most concerned about is liberals like me. Won’t back down, won’t swallow the lies. The whole cold dead hands bit. I note there are a lot of us out here, mostly in our 50’s and 60’s, that are very concerned about America.
You guys really aren’t funny. Making jokes about someone’s home invasion takes the cake. Glad I don’t know you, you’re sick.
Making fun of the fact that the government won’t allow law abiding citizen to have a gun on their property to protect themselves, their family and their livelihood while doing nothing to fight actual criminals makes me sick? Legal farmers should be able to apply for a permit to have a full auto uzi on site because home invasions by out of area gang bangers are becoming a new way of life here. Welcome to the new progressive way.
Good job changing the goal post
triggered much?
Yeah Sure, why don’t you refute his well articulated argument. Answer: because you can’t. Typical liberal.
What law prevents legal business owner from possessing arms?
Honest question. I don’t believe it. Is there a written law int the “go legal” process that states you cant arms on the property?
The 9th district ruled that ATF regulations trump state with regards to marijuana and marijuana users can not legally own a firearm under federal code.
http://cannabusinesslaw.com/2017/12/cannabis-and-gun-law/
Full ruling here (PDF):
https://cdn.ca9.uscourts.gov/datastore/opinions/2016/08/31/14-15700.pdf
Thanks ive always been told that but didn’t know why.
Subject matter jurisdiction would be found where?
Even better, in personam jurisdiction is where?
Mulligan Ex Parte very clearly states that wherever our American Common Law Courts are up and operating, the admiralty courts must cease operating as military tribunals and revert to their proper place as courts merely concerned with actual maritime contracts and other admiralty issues.
These foreign international courts, which are doing so much damage to our property and our people, are merely opportunists filling a gap that we left open through ignorance. When our courts stand on the land, their courts cannot usurp— but when we allow our Common Law Court System to stand vacant, the cat is away and the rats can play.
So no, Ullr Rover, linking us to a 9th Dist. ruling doesn’t mean beans when the bag is open. Wouldn’t hold up if challenged in a court of competent jurisdiction.
It’s not my justification; it’s theirs.
Since subject matter jurisdiction is missing, their justification doesn’t hold water. So i fail to see the point in leading MIke, or other readers in here, on a wild goose chase up the 9th Circuit’s backside.
I get what you’re saying Ullr Rover, i do -not sure others read between the lines.
You cannot legally grow cannabis and posess a firearm. It’s the law
//”It’s the law.”//
Why? Why? Why?
Full auto uzi huh? Keep dreaming idiot. We live in CA, not AZ. I don’t see a tax stamp in your future.
How bout Kalishnikov? Whadaya mean “you’re still an idiot”?!
I’m a idiot for using hyperbole to point out the ridiculousness of Ca gun laws when your making the same point? Yup Idiot is definitely the word.
FFS they should have security. If they don’t have security the are going to get robbed. and robbed again. and robbed again. Cannabis is legal now. That means it is easy as %$#@ to unload a shit ton of ripped off product. If you gonna hang you better step up the game.
you are actually on to something real here. CA Air Resource Board has been sending out fines if you own an old truck. They should have offered a buyback towards getting a newer cleaner vehicle. There probably was some program. I think they did it with farm equipment. State money getting thrown at the dealerships that sold us the dirty burners to begin with.
It’s time to make zip ties illegal. The more access criminals have to zip ties the more the crime rate soars. It’s time to stop this madness.
Thumbs up.
The only weapon that could out gun five AK-47’s is the M-60. And they are both 308 caliber. The key is the element of surprise. You can’t get a weapon into your hands if you are ambushed by surprise.
AK-47 is a 7.62×39mm round. 7.62x51mm NATO is the M60 which is close to .308 but not exact.
BFG-9000, the very best there is. When you absolutely, positively, got to kill every motherfucker in the room; accept no substitutes.
There actually are. Any vehicle used for commercial purposes, an 18 wheeler, or a Prius, is supposed to get a Motor Carrier of Property number and stop at scales. Now all these legal growers are doing “legit” business with all those pick-ups and box trailers technically should be enrolled. Rental box vans are supposed to stop at scales. A CHP could pull any of them over at any time, just to check if it is personal moving shit, or a rental for a business.
Easy pickings. If I’m not mistaken it’s forbidden to possess firearms on a permitted farm. Fuck that.
Maybe sherrif should check rental records.
Not very many oenske rentals around here.
Probably getting returned to ukiah or oakland
Too busy doing preventative maintenance on the skid steer and chipper.
“A bunch of other stuff”?
Really,that’s the description?
I appreciate that Lt. Fridley was trying to get information out and not waiting until every detail was nailed down.
excuse me , its Sgt Friday you reefer-soaked- WR HEARST wanna-be ..
Don’t use cannabis much except now and then in a cream form. And its alcohol soaked, reefer smoked.
Show me your paperssss….
I am glad that they felt comfortable enough to call the police, no one would have 5 years ago and at least there is a chance that they could be caught and not do this to others.
Yeah catch one truck and this will all stop. Easy pickins.
I hope there is swift investigative action and the first places to search is the rental places. You can’t rent things without ID etc… I hope these thieves are caught.
What should you do if you know of a farm that has a obscene amount of traffic and sells to the black market and has the guys straight to their house? You are putting the entire area at risk. Stop having every tom dick and Harry out to your farm. If you can’t sell your weed on the legal market maybe it’s time to quit the game.
Yeah, somebody needs to quit the game, you first.
I cant believe it, all that info on the rip offs in blocksburg and no air surveillance that’s BS, but if you have a couple plants on your property or a Mexican runs from them there’s choppers and planes flooding the area, we don’t have law enforcement unless they can use the satellite, i’ve been in sohum for forty years and this is what it has come to, legalization has done nothing good for this county or the real families that make up are communities
~total agreement w/you, cant believe it.
Can’t believe it, because it’s all a lie. ALL OF IT. From the cradle to the casket.
That men are not equal is the primitive belief of primitive people.
I certainly could be off base, but…
It seems highly likely that at least one of the thieves (or an “associate”) has been invited to the farm before, either as labor or (more likely) for a “traditional market” transaction.
Be careful who you invite home. They may be wolves in sheep’s clothing.
Exactly. A little white market, a little black market, and BAM right in the kisser.
If a cop had been shot and that description had been given of the perps, they would already have been caught, if not shot. There’s only so many ways outta Blocksburg and so much traffic. These cops suck!
Evidently these “gentlemen” are unaware you can’t have firearms around weed. Had they have known, this never would happen. Right? Keep voting away your rights to defend yourself sheeeple, keep punching that D ticket. But hey, don’t worry because all you need to do is share your feeeeeeelings and apologize for something that happened two hundred years ago and everything will be just fine.
DividebyZero: the Koolaid must be delicious! Looks like you drank a tub of it
The Irony in your response is delicious.
Yeah, love me some shootouts out in the boonies. Such easy solutions from people who weren’t there.
Lol, most of the tough guys commenting here would be the first to crap their pants and cry for mommy if they were in that situation.
~
“It is easier to fool the people, than to convince them they have been fooled”.
——— Mark Twain
Things have changed.
Used to be when you drove towards bloxburg this time of year a local drinking a Coors Light wearing camo carrying an ar 15 stopped your vehicle.
Or raised the beer to let you pass if they recognized you.
Government has left you lawbiders out there like chum.
Long live the outlaws!!!
We may not be perfect, at least we’re not a bunch of pig calling pussies
Cheers!
Outlaws? Some of you are federal level snitches.
Hmmm…score 1 for the big M.
Don’t Penske and U-Haul both use tracking devices/recorders in their rental vans/trucks?
https://www.fleetowner.com/news/penske_truck_track_fleet_insite_081705
Uhaul does not have trackers, but there is a big process to rent one now. Also each truck has identifying numbers on all four sides of the truck. There will be two letters followed by four numbers and a letter for example, RV3268H. The number can be looked up by uhaul and bring up the info on renter and anybody they added to their contacts.
Lots of uhauls on the roads these days. Best way to move your fresh harvest around. Several loads have gone out of the grows near me. I’m sure that they have their certified cannabis transport person driving to keep everything legal. Hahahahaha.
I wonder what it’s like renting a uhaul in Humboldt to actually move furniture and it reeks of fresh pot.
Are the LEOs able to track the Penske truck? GPS or something (not a tech person at all) Find out who rented it.
Probably was inside job, as in; the cops get a layout of the property, they get their guys or vehicles they’ve impounded, then they do a robbery with easy prey, then magically, a 40 minute drive down a long small windy A.P. road ……… and no cops to be found
If I could have a gun on my legal farm, I would’t need police.
~if you feel compelled to ask permission to be armed, you should maybe think about posting your comment on another blog.
Not everyone agrees with you here.
Do you own guns central humco? That is a scary thought.
Maybe i do. Maybe i don’t. If i did, i’d even protect you if you were in need of help.
Thanks but I’m good! I’d prefer conspiracy theory people like you and the right wing nuts on this thread were never allowed to own guns. But that’s just me and the majority of Americans!
~oh well pardon me. I didn’t realize that you can speak for the majority of Americans.
BTW, there’s no theory in criminal conspiracy. (!)
you do seem scared
I disagree! It is the Lord that causes invasions of marijuana farms. Just like the Crusades. Orders came directly from the Lord. He lost that battle and he will lose this one.
Cannabis is legal.
I bet they came from Redding. They threw in the part about being an hour from the freeway to get people to look that way, when they instead probably left out the 36 towards Red Bluff. Probably took back roads to Redding, through Igo and Ono.
In my church we learn that marijuana is the crop of the devil himself. Evil stuff. These home invasions are the devil at work. If these evil people would stop making drugs other evil people would stop taking them with violence. Until then the lord laughs (I laugh too) and the world keeps spinning. I make my money the right and legal was unlike these scumbags. Got what they deserve, all involved on both sides. Amen and keep praying people.
Yes, a waiting period on zip ties and no more box truck rentals whatsoever. Unless it is a church group which needs them for purposes directly related to the work of God and Christ our lord. Thank you this is what is needed.
Jesus was zip tied to cross while they pointed AK-47s at him, nails were never involved in the crime.
Why would they make their escape on 101?
Back roads for miles to I 5
Pretty sure someone saw them pass by Tooby Ranch Rd. Soon after they left Blocksburg. That’s around 5 miles from Garberville on AP road..
Remember how bitchen it was when all you dope growers sold those pounds to that friend of a friend from the city? The black dude came rolling up in his black Escalade with a grocery bag full of hunskies and bought all your illegal drugs and said see ya later? What he meant was see ya next year but I’ll be rollin with my hommies. Just because you got a note from the county does not mean you are forgiven for the last 25 years.
//”.. does not mean you are forgiven for the last 25 years.”//
Oh yeah, that’s just what i think, too. (Not)
~the Drug war is failed because Code enforcement has a symbiotic relationship with the “hypothetical industry” itself. The virus is not going to kill the host, least a smart one. You keep it alive just enough to keep feeding off it.
How about that? All just because of the undefined “Legal” fruit.
how many legal farms have been robbed so far in california? anyone have the stats?
Seems too easy for a white market grower to rip himself off , sell it on the black market , then go about their normal business.
Let’s look at the facts here.
1 Why would any criminal use a lowjacked penske truck to rob a grow in humboldt? Like this convoy of a uhaul , penske and ford with a box trailer wouldnt be sighted on a major hwy. The mention of them getting to the hwy was obviously propaganda.
2 The flesh wound scenario on an inside robbery job has been played out in hollywood for thre zombies in tv land for years. With all that income to gain and the calvary coming ,why not take one for the team?
3 going to the neihbors to call 911 looking all robbed and broke off would also help to assimilate your claim. No phone signal at your huge grow , no cameras , no security?
4 . 5 black guys dont go any where in humboldt unnoticed. Im sorry.
Im not saying there isnt a chance that this was infact a genuine robbery. Just seems a bit questionable
Why go thru all that trouble to fool the county so you can sell on the black market when you can do it right under their nose without all those theatrics.
You can even get away with claiming “crop failure” a couple of times.
Maybe insurance? I’m not sure that claiming crop failure would look good in the eyes of the county for renewal. With track and trace they would most likely want to inspect said ,”failure”. I’m not hip on all the details of legal growing but it may be worth their while to handle it this way.
3 huge trucks tho? A buddy of mine went under scrutiny on the end of a harvest and had to load his entire crop into a uhual . he must have shoved 400 pounds or so in there? Bringing 3 trucks seems a bit questionable for a robbery. Most theives are going to be a lot more concise. the lowjacked penske truck really seems like misinformation to me. Something to distract the investigation.
At most every stop light and every speed check there are cameras. They had to have been seen driving in, no question. Its a convoy for bleep sake. any vehicle in question is totally high profile. uhual , penske.
Its also possible the paid workers staged it in the effect to pass the blame on the men in black. It’s a crap shoot of a situation. No security on a grow with enough product to fill 3 huge trucks> not a camera or phone? This thing seems well planned out to the extent that they knew how the investigation would follow and how to mislead that investigation to some extent.
Im no expert and im not claiming to know the truth in all of this. just bringing some questions out. Also its very likely it could have been a genuine robbery and all the facts are just that. If thats the case lets catch the men in black!
The county is not inspecting anything and the county is not going to refuse to renew anybody’s permit over anything. The county wants tax money and permit fees and that is all the county is interested in. That is apparent by now to those of us following this corrupt extortion game that the county is playing. I might reconsider my position if the county EVER denies a large permit or rescinds ANY permit and chooses to not grab that $$ for their permission slip…
They are probably back in Wyoming by now.
5 black guys dont go any where in Wyoming unnoticed. Im sorry.
If anyone see’s a uhaul truck or trailer being used in a crime, get the number of the equipment and turn it in to the police department. This will let them know who rented the equipment. The numbers look just like the picture (two letters four numbers and a letter) and are on all four sides. The police can get the information from uhaul.
in ukiah this wvening around 530 or 6 pm saw a all in one tow truck hauling a truck that matches said rental truck being esscorted by mendo sheriff fyi
I understand it was found abandoned in Mendocino County but I haven’t gotten that officially.
People will steal anything, as long as someone else will buy.
I also wonder about these marijuana robberies… It’s always African Americans with assault rifles too. Could they all be actual incidents?
https://www.sfgate.com/local/article/yarn-stolen-from-knitter-Hayes-Valley-car-theft-14498944.php
If you don’t want your pot stolen, don’t grow it.
If you don’t want your yarn stolen, don’t knit it.
https://www.eqgroup.com/marijuana-cultivation-insurance/
Seems they cover theft.
uhaul and penske trucks have gps trackers and milage tracking, this should be an easy thing to solve unless it gets swept under the rug
They can be easily disabled , it’s not rocket science.
Look into
( Rick A. Jackson )
Out of Rancho Cordova .sacramento
The hood section of the city..@——apt B
Flowers from humboldt keep endeing up being sold on black market in rancho cordova and Missouri. Sent by mail.. and his girlfriend/ wife is involved with home invations..also..he always works with five other african Americans he has gathered in rancho cordova area .and some times has a few more..his wife /girl is white.usually 5 people invade home/ go in…but theres also drivers thats usually him / and stashed cars…and some one at the begining fork of a road way down road sometimes many miles away from house. ware cops would first enter..that is a look out to tell the others to bug out if any thing is heading there way.
Rick is a Missouri man
locations that link him on line are .
Independence mo.
Kansas city mo.
Sacramento ca.
He seems to be robbing multiple parcels/houses with his friends. And this is his. ( Mo).
At least Two years he has been running around robbing people with friends from Rancho Cordova .. with uhaul and white truck.. in trinity .mendo and humboldt..
Please do reserch on this guy.. for ur self.and if u been robbed or had a home invassion..in last two years..
and if the county wants to look into it,
And make it a bit safer and saves few zip ties for a change..
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